In article ,
Sacha wrote:

On 30/4/07 12:53, in article , "Nick
Maclaren" wrote:


In article ,
Sacha writes:
|
| I was astonished yesterday when someone who lives in Barnsley,
| Yorkshire,
| told us that they were able to grow Echiums there. They were buying a
| Melianthus to take back and 'give it a try'. I think that's probably
| another example of how sharp drainage is more important than worries
| about
| cold.

Entirely dependent on the plant! I can assure you that it is true
for Cyclamen coum and Passiflora incarnata :-)

Amazing. Don't forget, the furthest north I've gardened is Surrey. ;-) We
can't get Echiums to do very well here at all but we think that's because
our soil is so heavy and wet in winter.

It will just be part of Barnsley repositioning itself as a Tuscan hill
village.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/saturday_r...679446,00.html
http://www.thisistravel.co.uk/travel...-Tykes-article.
html?in_article_id=33088

If you look carefully in this picture of Barnsley from above
http://society.guardian.co.uk/Societ...-10404756937,0
0.html

you can actually see the echiums, they're the green things which
form a line across the town centre, about 2/3 of the way back.